Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

Family. A snug kind of word.

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Power up your intelligence. Hit that creativity button.

Today is blessed gift.Today is your day.Be grateful for today.

Barcelona is one of my favourite cities in the world. The fashion and people are just so effortlessly cool.

Sports uplift us. It's celebratory, gives us optimism and joy.

Interrogate yours hidden assumptions

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.

Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.